Well-bucket



(No Model.)

W. D. MARTIN, Sr. WELL BUCKET.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.4

WILLIAM DAWSON MARTIN, SR., OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

WELL-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,569, dated May 3,1898. Application led November 13, 1897`l Serial No. 658,480. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DAWSON MAR- TIN, Sr., a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Jackson, in the county of Madison and Stateof Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWell-Buckets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to sectional buckets; and it consists in thenovel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafterdescribed. l

Theobject of the invention is to provide sectional buckets especiallyadapted to be used on driven or bored wells, and in the form of theinvention as shown in the accompanying drawings the buckets areespecially adapted to be used in wells having angular curbing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a transverse section of thewell, showing the buckets in the act of descending simultaneously andtaking in water. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the buckets.Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the well and the sectionalbuckets located therein.

As above stated, the buckets are especially adapted to be used in squarewells, and in the drawings l represents the curbing of the well. Each ofthe buckets is provided with the sides 2 2, said sides being at rightangles to each other, and the side 3, the said side 3 forming thehypotenuse of the triangle and connecting the ends of the two sides 2 2.The side 3 is adapted to extend from one corner of the curbing to theopposite diagonal corners, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The two buckets aresimilar in their construction, the upper ends of the sides 2 2 and 3converging slightly, as at 4 in Figs. l and 2, and the upper ends of thebuckets are open, and the bails 5 enter the said openings and aresecured to the inner sides of the converging sections 4 by any suit- Thechains 6 are attached to the bails 5. The bottom of each'bucket isprovided with a perforation 7, above which is located a valve 8. As thebuckets descend the Water passes up through the perforations 7, opensthe valves 8, and enters the interior of the buckets. When the bucketsare filled,

they are drawn up and the valves 8 immediately shut, and thus the watercontained within the buckets is elevated. The two buckets are adapted tobe operated alternately, and the tapering sections 4L at the upper endsof the buckets will guide the ascending bucket past the descendingbucket; also, the corners of the curbing will assist in retaining thebuckets in their proper positions. The buckets when together completelyll the interior of the curbing 1, and as the buckets are made of thinsheet metal a maximum amount of water is elevated, as the material inthe construction of the buckets takes up but little room. When thebuckets arrive at the top of the curbing, the water is poured outthrough the openings at the upper ends of the buckets.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with a well havinga rectangular curbing, a pluralityof buckets, each bucket in its cross-section being in the shape of aright-angle triangle, each bucket having in its bottom a valvedWater-inlet and a suitable means for operating the buckets.

2.v In combination with a well having a square curbing, a plurality ofbuckets, each bucket being in the shape of a right-angle triangle, eachbucket having in its bottom a suitable valved water-inlet, the upper endof each bucket having converging sections, a suitable means foroperating the buckets.

3. In combination with a well having a squared curbing, a plurality ofbuckets, each bucket in its transverse section being in the shape of aright-angle triangle, each bucket having in its bottom a valvedwater-inlet, each bucket having at its upper end converging sections,the upper ends of said sections terminating into an opening'into theinterior of the bucket, a bail passing through said opening and beingsecured to the inner surfaces of the bucket, a suitable means foroperating the buckets.

WILLIAM DAWSON MARTIN, SENIOR.

Witnesses:

W. B. HAYs, JOHN MAeEvNEY.

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